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Women In Sustainability Series, episode 2.🎙

Introducing Christina Flach, the Founder and CEO of Pretty Girl MakeUp and Beauty Expert on NBC. Christina’s brand, Pretty Girl MakeUp, was founded in 1996 as she looked to create a better product for both herself, her clients, and customers. 

She could never find a high quality lip gloss that would last after application throughout her busiest days. Every gloss she tried and was referred to would seemingly disappear within an hour of application or a sip of water. After trying a dozen products, Christina decided to fix the problem herself–and after a year of formulation, Pretty Girl MakeUp was born. 

Christina wanted to do more than just create another lifestyle and cosmetic brand. Christina wanted her brand to resemble her beliefs. From the quality of the product, to how the product is made and even packaged, Christina created something for more than a lifestyle product–she challenged the cosmetics industry to do better. 

From skin and eye products, many cosmetic brands use animal testing–something that has been condemned by many animal rights groups and consumers. As such, Christina wanted her brand to be different and take a stand against this. So all of her products at Pretty Girl Makeup are cruelty free. 

What’s more, as Pretty Girl Makeup grows, Christina is developing new brands and products. With her business growth, she continues to look for ways to reduce waste in the packaging and postal of her products by using less material and biodegradable packaging.

This episode covers some interesting topics–from understanding more about her approach to health & lifestyle, living more sustainably, creating a brand and businesses with sustainable practices and goals, to also defining a ‘vegan’ cosmetic product!

This week’s podcast guest features Christina Flach, Founder and CEO at Pretty Girl MakeUp as part of our ‘Women in Sustainability’ series.  

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Women In Sustainability Series, episode 1.🎙

Introducing Victoria, Co-Founder at Damn Plastic, a franchise and online store that sells plastic free products like edible straws, bowls, spoons, biodegradable ear swabs and bamboo toothbrushes! 

Based in Austria, the founders of Damn Plastic are on a mission to make sustainability more mainstream by selling products that reduce the amount of single use plastics. 

Founded in 2018, the idea for Damn Plastic originated when Co-Founders Victoria and Steph “got drunk” at a festival and they couldn’t stop looking at all the plastic and single-use trash that was, in their words, “f***ing everywhere”. 

So in 2019, they opened their flagship store in Salzburg, Austria. Since the launch, the team at Damn Plastic have grown rapidly over the past three years and have accomplished a lot: from receiving the UN Sustainable Development Goals Action Award in 2020, to helping other green entrepreneurs in discovering their dream and launching their own Damn Plastic franchises. With more franchises appearing not just in Europe, but now around the world, the team at Damn Plastic is growing and so too is their #DamnPlastic reach!

From their stores, consultancy and B2B work, the team at Damn Plastic believe in making a damn solution to addressing the needs of climate change and reducing our environmental footprint. Their focus is making environemntally-friendly purchasing habits–which eliminate harmful single use plastics–as easy as possible.  

This week’s podcast guest features Victoria Neuhofer, Co-Founder at Damn Plastic as part of our ‘Women in Sustainability’ series.  

To learn more about Damn Plastic simply click the link:

https://www.damnplastic.com

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Industry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Andrew Joseph, the Founder & CEO at Andrew Joseph PR or ‘AJPR’ for short. 

AJPR is an all-in-one marketing and public relations firm that offers marketing support for clients in the textile and home furniture/manufacturing industry. 

Founded in 2012, AJPR is a New York-based firm that collaborates with and represents a number of high profile clients from the Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC), including ASH Interiors & Design, Cortina Leathers, Cate-Brown-Design, to name a few.

Andrew and his team believe that having a niche in home furnishings, textile, and design ensures that their marketing expertise and delivery on client projects is backed by a proven track record in the industry.

However, during this interview Andrew helps explore the conversion of public relations and marketing by applying his knowledge to sustainability based organisations, regardless of industry. 

As a media business, our team have had the fortunate opportunity to work with Andrew, the team at AJPR, and some of their sustainability-based clients such as the SFC, Cate-Brown-Design and Cortina Leathers. So on today’s episode, our Founder Daniel Hartz was keen to find out more about Andrew’s take on marketing and PR, his advice for businesses on their PR and marketing strategies, insightful tips on best marketing practices for sustainable businesses. 

This is the final episode of our three part ‘Industry professional Interviews’ series. We hope you enjoyed these interviews and the information our guests shared!

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https://www.andrewjosephpr.com/home

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Industry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Steve Bussey, Founder, Sales Coach, Mentor and Consultant at Salestrong, one of the UK’s leading sales training providers and sales consultancy. 

Salestrong is a sales performance consultancy that works with a range of clients in a variety of industries.

Steve and his team at Salestrong have an approach to sales training that is built around two key areas:

As an organisation, through their sales training and coaching, Steve and his team's mission is to help companies develop world-class teams that create, communicate, and capture value across the entire sales process. 

In the second episode of this three-part, ‘Industry Professionals Interviews’ special on our channel, our founder Daniel Hartz wanted to understand how exactly a sustainable organisation can communicate the value of their sustainability-based ideas or solutions to decision-makers and customers. What’s more, understand what the term ‘emotional intelligence’ is and how this applies to sales teams. Finally, the key insights or tips Steve would have for a sustainable organisation building a sales team that can deliver results. 

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https://salestrong.co.uk

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Industry professionals Interview series on the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Oliver Oguz, the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Trade Mark Wizards, a UK based trade mark law firm that specialises in protecting all aspects of their clients brands including trade marks, designs, copyright, domain names and cyber law. 

Based in London, Oliver is a chartered trade mark attorney and intellectual property consultant who has worked with brands in London, across the UK, and internationally protecting his clients brands both in the country they reside and in international markets. 

For the attorneys and team at Trade Mark Wizards, the heart of their business is to ensure that they deliver an outstanding level of customer service to their clients. It drives their commitment to be the UK & global trade mark registration, protection, dispute resolution and litigation experts. 

Trade Mark Wizards have worked with a wide variety of clients over the years, including celebrity clients like former heavyweight boxer David Haye for his promotion company ‘Hayemaker promotions’ to large retail chains such as B&M Stores and as well charitable organisations such as Missing people. 

In the first of a three part ‘Industry Professionals Interviews’ special on our channel, our founder Daniel Hartz wanted to understand how exactly a sustainable organisation can go about trade marking their intellectual property. 

Oliver covers some useful insights on what every business owner and organisation should know about trade marks as well as some of the risks that sustainable organisations that create innovative products or solutions could face if they do not A) trade mark protect themselves or B) fail to trade mark their brand properly. 

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https://trademarkwizards.co.uk

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Series 2, episode 13 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Sumedhaa Kothari, Founder of By.Sume, a clothing brand that is challenging fast fashion by making clothing from upcycled materials at affordable prices. 

Based in the US, Sumedhaa attended the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a degree in Cognitive Science. Starting her career at Google, and continuing her career at the FinTech company Stripe, Sumedhaa decided to launch her own circular-based clothing brand for customers online around the world. 

Sumedhaa has made a variety of clothing items out of bed skirts, plastic, and leaves. She even turned seaweed into a one-shoulder floor-length gown!

For Sumedhaa, her brand is about more than just offering an alternative to fast fashion–through her creativity she is able to create wearable pieces of art that cater to her customers’ sustainable lifestyles. By building a community of followers and customers, Sumedhaa is on a mission to create awareness of the environmental issues of fast fashion and the direct impacts it has on climate change. 

This week’s podcast guest features Sumedhaa Kothari, Founder of By.Sume. 

In this week’s podcast episode, we discuss the impacts fast fashion is having on our environment, why we as consumers need to assess our clothing buying habits, how a circular-based clothing brand allows for more upcycling and reuse in what we wear, and Sumedhaa’s plans as she looks to grow her brand!

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Series 2, episode 12 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Nina Rauch, Senior Social Impact Lead at Lemonade, an insurance company that is changing everything we know about the insurance industry and making a real impact in our society, having partnered with over 100 organisations and causes that support the environment, LGBTQ+ and much more.

Lemonade is an insurance company that offers incredible prices for monthly subscriptions and bundle discounts on everything for renters, homeowners, our cars, pets and much more.

Lemonade reserves the traditional insurance model and treats premiums you pay as if it's your money and not theirs. With Lemonade, everything becomes simple and transparent. They take a flat rate fee, pay claims super fast, and give back what’s left to causes you care about.

And this is what makes Lemonade a unique Sustainability Champion!

Lemonade is a purpose-driven brand that has its own Giveback program. A B-Corp-certified organisation, Lemonade has built partnerships with 108 organisations and causes in Europe and the U.S. giving over $6 million to life-saving causes.

To date, Lemonade has donated nearly $900K to climate-related causes and organisations to address the needs of climate change.

Some of these donations have contributed to the following climate-related impacts:

Here at Sustainability Champions, we believe that addressing the needs of climate change will require everyone to take action and do what they can - that includes private organisations.

This week’s podcast guest features Nina Rauch from Lemonade. In this conversation, we discuss the social impact initiatives Lemonade is a part of, how they are changing the business model for good in the insurance world, and Nina’s thoughts on how more organisations can begin to introduce purpose-driven programs and initiatives within their operations.

To learn more about Lemonade simply click the link:

https://www.lemonade.com

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Series 2, episode 11 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Jon Dishotsky, Investment Partner at Giant Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in purpose-driven founders and organisations on a mission to offer real-world value while addressing the most pressing challenges for our environment.

Giant Ventures champions tech founders who are creating a more sustainable, equitable and resilient planet. The partners at Giant Ventures believe that the biggest companies of the decade will be built to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, from climate change to mental health.

Giant Ventures is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm seeking systematic change across three main areas:

The partners at Venture Capitalism value courage, and global ambition.

As former founders, the team at Giant Ventures knows how hard it is to create something from nothing. Their approach to venture capitalism is to be part of the organisations they invest in and help these companies grow.

This week’s podcast guest features Jon Dishotsky from Giant Ventures. In this conversation, we discuss what VC funds can do to help Sustainability Champions around the world raise the funding needed to make their sustainability ideas a reality.

To learn more about Giant Ventures simply click the link:

https://www.giant.vc

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Series 2, episode 10 of the Sustainability Champions podcast 🎙

Introducing Tanner Farrow; the CEO of BioCoTech Americas, a company that specialises in diverting food and other organic materials from landfills. BioCoTech’s technology is the Biospeed solution that creates a full-circle waste management system, which eliminates the need to transport waste and transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. With BioCoTech Americas solution, businesses and organisations of all sizes can make a tangible impact on the environment and be at the forefront of environmental, social & governance and carbon reduction goals.

With an upgraded waste management process, the power of the BioSpeed technology ensures that compost is reintroduced to the earth, and this process can help sequester vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and regenerate our soils.

How much organic waste does your organisation produce each year? You can measure how much you can save from landfill waste and how much compost you can produce on-site through the link below:

https://biocotechamericas.com/biospeed-models/

With composting having major environmental benefits, on this week’s podcast episode, we speak to the CEO of BioCoTech Americas to understand what composting is, learn about the BioSpeed technology the team at BioCoTech has developed, and its sustainable benefits for repurposing food and organic waste.

Today’s episode features Tanner Farrow from BioCoTech Americas.

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https://biocotechamericas.com

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Series 2, episode 9 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast 🎙

Introducing Jeff Ciudaj, the Founder and CEO of Deep Root Irrigation, a company that specialises in making a water irrigation system for farmers that reduces the amount of water needed for harvests.

The team at Deep Root Irrigation created this solution to address the need to conserve water and reduce the amount of water used in the agriculture industry. In fact, agriculture uses approximately 70% of the world’s freshwater; this industry alone can address the issue of water scarcity globally!

And this is where the team at Deep Root Irrigation comes in.

As a company, Deep Root Irrigation, or ‘DRI’ have 5 key principles their team follow: Honour God, honour family, honesty, quality and bless the world.

For Jeff and the team at DRI, this product and their mission goes beyond innovation - for the team at DRI they believe this idea came to them as there is a need on earth, now more than ever, to conserve our natural resources.

As our population continues to grow and water scarcity continues to become a problem for billions of people globally, there is a need for more creative solutions and innovations that help conserve natural resources, improve practices such as agriculture efficiently and reduce waste.

On our channel we have highlighted thousands of champions and this week’s podcast guest is the true definition of a Sustainability Champion who has inspired us with their message, values and product.

What was certainly an inspirational conversation, this week’s episode features Jeff Ciudaj from DRI.

To learn more about Deep Root Irrigation simply click the link:

https://www.dri-products.com

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